miscellanious

Here’s some other miscellanious stuff about me:

• I’m originally from Bellevue, Washington (near Seattle). I’ve since lived in The Bay Area of California, Boston, and Canada, but I consider myself to be Cascadian through and through.
• A very long time ago, I got a black belt in TaeKwonDo, a form of Korean martial arts.
• I did competitive Lincoln-Douglas debate in high school, and still regularly coach for my alma mater The Harker School (go Eagles!). I love thinking about competitive debate, maybe even more than I loved competing.
• I’m proud to be the sibling of three brothers, one of which is a soon-to-be law student and the other two of whom are Australian Shepherds.
• I’m the fourth “Quentin Clark” in my family, after my father, grandad, and great-grandad.
• I was very briefly a student at San Diego State University (go Aztecs!) as a Global Campus student, studying Mandarin Chinese as part of Project Global Officer, which helps train ROTC students in foreign languages
• I owe a great deal to Boston University’s undergraduate philosophy association and to their student journal of philosophy, Arche, for supporting my personal development.
• Why two middle names? My mother is Filipina; in the Phillipines people have a first middle name similar to Anglo middle names, and take their mother’s maiden name as a second. Oddly, most former Spanish colonies don’t do this, but Lusosphere countries do.
• Things I enjoy doing (that make me look respectible): playing softball, going to Toronto Blue Jays games, walking in High Park, making funny sounds at wild animals, annoying my brothers.